LumberJocks Woodworking Forum banner

Comments

· Registered
Joined
·
281 Posts
great job those really sell good around here and kids love em.
 

· Registered
Joined
·
1 Posts
what a fun project! i might have to make one myself! thats a mighty big jar!
 

· In Loving Memory
Joined
·
8,391 Posts
Great idea Raymond and free gumballs too. What more could you want?
 

· Registered
Joined
·
308 Posts
Great idea, I am getting ready for the Mentone, AL Fall Fest and I think I will make a few.
 

· Registered
Joined
·
85 Posts
I am in the middle of making one right now, but I think I like your design better.

Nice job!
 

· Registered
Joined
·
7 Posts
Very nice! My dad used to make these as Christmas presents for people. He would use a small fish bowl instead of a jar.

Great Job!!
 

· Registered
Joined
·
11 Posts
I think these are great, I have been looking for plans online but so far can't find any. Does anyone have a link, or able to send me them. Thanks

Pat
 

· Registered
Joined
·
55 Posts
Looks Great, I made one about 10 years ago and i gave it to a friend. I want to make another one some day.
Thanks for the posting.
 

· Registered
Joined
·
1,083 Posts
Looks like it was a fun project, great job!
 

· Registered
Joined
·
0 Posts
Thanks everyone. This wasn't my design more of my wood teachers design but I made it. =D
 

· Registered
Joined
·
470 Posts
I used to do this with the middle school kids in shop class. HOwever we used old peanut butter jars. I let one kid bring in a mayo glass jar and it broke. After that it was all peanut butter plastic jars. Good job. Kids loved them when I was doing them too.
 

· Registered
Joined
·
201 Posts
love it.
 

· Registered
Joined
·
11 Posts
Hey Raymond, I have been trying to ticker with some different ideas on the gumball holder of mine own but just cant nail couple of things down, hoping you could help me. How to do you make the holder indent like that without spending to much time trying to sand it just right. Any help would be much appreciated.
By the way you Machine looks great,
Ryan
 

· Registered
Joined
·
0 Posts
Ryanf, What I did was I took a key that my teacher made of that half circle shape and put it directly to the edge of the board then traced it. Once I was done I used the band saw to cut out the shape and then used a disc sander to smooth out and round the edge. Once I was done with that I took a quarter and placed it in the center of the holder and traced around the edge of the quarter. Once done I used a gouge to gouge out the round hole in the center staying in the lines I drew and gouged out about half of the boards thickness. Then I took some 80, 120, and 220 sand paper and sanded it out till it was smooth. And I used a mortise and tenon for it to hang on the side. Hope this helps.
 
Top